confirmatory
Backing up claims
Confirmatory means serving to confirm or verify something already suspected or provisionally established.
A confirmatory test provides additional evidence supporting an initial finding.
Confirmatory evidence strengthens a hypothesis.
The word appears often in medical and scientific contexts, where preliminary results require confirmation: The confirmatory biopsy revealed cancer.
Proving something accurate
- corroborationEvidence confirming another account
- substantiationProof of truth
- proofDemonstration of truth
- validationConfirming truth or accuracy
authentication · documentation · testimony · attestation · certification · evidence · supporting · conclusive
Formal expression of approval
- concurrenceState of agreeing
- ratificationFormal approval by authority
- endorsementFormal expression of support
- approvalFavorable opinion given
sanction · consent · acquiescence · acknowledgment · affirmation · accord · authorization · accreditation
Ease or soothing relief
- encouragementSupport spurring continued effort
- supportTo uphold or sustain
- reliefEasing of distress
- hearteningInspiring confidence or cheer
bolstering · affirming · uplifting · soothing · reassuring · calming · settling · resolving
verification
Proving something accurate
- corroborationEvidence confirming another account
- substantiationProof of truth
- proofDemonstration of truth
validation · authentication · documentation · testimony · attestation · certification · evidence · supporting · conclusive · empirical
assent
Formal expression of approval
- concurrenceState of agreeing
- ratificationFormal approval by authority
- endorsementFormal expression of support
approval · sanction · consent · acquiescence · acknowledgment · affirmation · accord · authorization · accreditation · consensus
comfort
Ease or soothing relief
- encouragementSupport spurring continued effort
- supportTo uphold or sustain
- reliefEasing of distress
heartening · bolstering · affirming · uplifting · soothing · reassuring · calming · settling · resolving · closure
- test modifiersdiagnostic, preliminary, routine, stat, follow-up
- study designsclinical trial, randomized trial, cross-sectional, pilot study, case study
confirmatorydisconfirming
Proving something false
refuting · contradictory · disproving · negating · invalidating
confirmatoryexploratory
Seeking to discover
inductive · open-ended · preliminary · pilot · observational
confirm, confirmed, confirmation, confirming, unconfirmed, confirms, reconfirm, confirmable, reconfirmed